Comments on: Knicks Morning News (Wednesday, May 08 2013)http://KnickerBlogger.Net/knicks-morning-news-wednesday-may-08-2013/
Statistical Analysis. Humor. Knicks.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:18:44 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: MarvsTeethhttp://KnickerBlogger.Net/knicks-morning-news-wednesday-may-08-2013/#comment-433777
Wed, 08 May 2013 16:10:45 +0000http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=11505#comment-433777I have to say, every single game of Round 2 so far has been sensational (ok, the Knicks games just because the Knicks were involved). But talk about drama and quality bball. It’s a good time to be an NBA fan.
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Wed, 08 May 2013 14:18:30 +0000http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=11505#comment-433752If Hibbert has one game where he gets the shit whistle Carmelo got in game 1, the Knicks will blow the Pacers out. So far the difference in the series is that the Pacers have been able to play their best players more than the Knicks. Their only big run of the series came with Melo in foul trouble in game 1, if Hibbert or West have to go to the bench they have nothing to fall back on.
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Wed, 08 May 2013 13:59:50 +0000http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=11505#comment-433749What a difference a day makes! I read that dogrufus is predicting we might push them all the way to six games. Sweet relief.

The entire game was one of those where every time you look up at the scoreboard you think “Huh? Really?”. It felt like we were really outplaying them in the first half and somehow it’s a 5 point game at the half, then they spark that little run in the 3rd, they have the lead, the momentum, and they called a timeout and went to their bench players. And I just wonder if that won’t turn out to be the turning point of the series as well. I realize that Vogel was going to have to steal some minutes with his bench at some point, but it really felt like he had a chance to put the boot on the throat there, and instead he assigned the task to Jeff Pendergraph. Which worked about as well as you’d expect.

That fourth quarter really felt like it took the monkey off a lot of guys’ backs. The energy, the shot making, the defense, the passing, it just felt like a whole team simultaneously regaining their mojo. In that respect I think the long break to game 3 is a curse for us. It’s long enough for the initial impact of the game to wear off and the big picture to reemerge. That was a cathartic victory, but the Pacers still got their job done on the road. If they hold serve they’ll win the series. We’re still the desperate team, and I hope we play like it. I thought the energy, focus and intensity by the Knicks last night was night and day from game 1.

My last thought is that once again I can’t believe how good a job GG has done filling out the back half of our roster. The real difference between these two teams is 6-12, and as the series goes along I think we’re going to make that advantage tell more and more. Vogel doesn’t have a single bench guy he can trust, and we have 3 or 4. We need to win this series during those 5 minute spells of Sam Young, Perdergraph, Augustin and whoever else.